LOOK CLOSELY... THAT GREEN LIGHT SKY 4 CAUGHT ON VIDEO COMING FROM THE INSIDE OF THAT TRUCK.. COULD LAND THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE IN A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE TODAY.... GOOD AFTERNOON I'M GEOFF HART.... NEW AT NOON... AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY AFTER SOMEONE AIMED A LASER POINTER AT SKY 4... NOW THE F-B-I AND OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES COULD GET INVOLVED. NEWS 4'S NIGEL ROBERTSON IS ON THE STORY... AND HERE WITH MORE.. GEOFF... SKY 4 WAS UP ABOVE A PEDESTRIAN ACCIDENT ON INTERSTATE 85 AND LAURENS ROAD YESTERDAY EVENING. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED. SOMEONE IN A VEHICLE SHINED A LASER ON SKY 4 IN THE AIR COVERING THE ACCIDENT. YOU CAN SEE SOMEONE IN THAT WHITE EXPLORER PICK UP TRUCK... REPEATEDLY SHINING A GREEN LASER INTO THE EYES OF OUR PILOT. TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF JUST HOW DANGEROUS THIS COULD BE... WE'VE BROKEN THE VIDEO DOWN INTO still FRAMES.. TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THE LASER MOVES AROUND... GETTING BRIGHTER AS IT SHINES AT THE CABIN OF SKY 4. WHEN IT IS SHINED DIRECTLY AT OUR SKY 4 CAMERA.. THE PICTURE STARTS TO TURN GREEN... UNTIL IT ACTUALLY BLINDS OUR ENTIRE CREW INSIDE THE HELICOPTER. ACCORDING TO REPORTS TO THE FAA.... ATTACKS IN WHICH AIRCRAFTS ARE TARGETED WITH LASER POINTERS..... ARE UP 1,100 PERCENT NATIONWIDE SINCE 2005. IN FACT IN 2005, THERE WERE FEWER THAN 300 INCIDENTS WHERE PLANES WERE TARGETED, NOW THERE ARE REPORTS THE NUMBER THIS YEAR COULD TOP.... 4-THOUSAND INCIDENTS. INVESTIGATORS... HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN TO THE PEOPLE WITH THE LASER POINTER... INSIDE THAT TRUCK. POINTING A LASER AT AN AIRCRAFT IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE. SO FAR NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED. TONIGHT AT FIVE... YOU'LL HEAR FROM OUR SKY 4 PILOT PHIL TATE... AND PHOTOGRAPHER ALBERT SPEAR.. ABOUT THE EFFECT THAT LASER HAD ON THEM... I'LL ALSO TELL YOU WHY THE F-B-I COULD END UP USING THIS CASE AS AN EXAMPLE TO WARN OTHERS THE PRICE YOU'LL PAY IF YOU POINT A LASER AT THE WRONG PLACE.

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